Monster Walks (B&W)

Starring:Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds, Sheldon Lewis, Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Sidney Bracey, Willie Best
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

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Monster Walks (B&W)
Starring: Rex Lease , Vera Reynolds , Sheldon Lewis , Mischa Auer , and Martha Mattox
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B00007G1TF
Release Date: 2002-11-19

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Who came up with this title??.......2007-05-03

Well I don;t know what it was like in 1932, but in 2007, this movie is about as scary as a bowl of Raisin Bran. And who came up with the title? First of all there is no monster, only a chimpanzee in a cage in the basement. And the mastermind behind the murders does not even walk! He's in a wheelchair!

The plot is simple enough, a dude dies and the will is read. The daughter got everything, but if something happens to her, than the dead man's brother gets everything, hmmmmm. Time to kill the girl.

So we have a hand coming out of a headboard of a bed to strangle her, and we have a picture that moves to reveal a peephole. That about all the fright you'll get out of this. Can you handel it??

Actually the dude who is doing the killing has himself set up with a pretty clever alibi. But you have to look for it. While he is killing, he makes like he is playing a violin in his room. But it is actually a phonograph providing the music. Then there is a little silohuette of a figure playing a violin. There is a light shining behind it to project a shadow on the window of the door. The siloheutte even moves by means of the phonograph, check it out.

Well the killer (who accidently kills his mom) is now trying to kill the girl. Does he just kill her in the same fashion he accidently kills his mom? Of course not. He ties her to a pole and whips the chimp in the cage to work him into a frenzy. Unfortunatly for him, the chimp reaches through the bars and chokes him after a little tug-o-war with the whip. Yeah, this is pretty realistic.

There is a little comedy relief in Exodus the driver. He is a black man, but he might as well be a white guy in blackface doing racist jokes in a minstral show. If Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson had been around back then, the Rainbow Coalition would have picketted this flick.

The Monkey Squawks..........2005-06-12

THE MONSTER WALKS is a perfect sub-zero budget fright feast! There's a big house full of secret passages, a raging thunderstorm, creepy servants, a dead guy in an upstairs bedroom, a lurking killer, and a crazed chimpanzee in the basement (this mad ape has a shriek that'll pucker up your armpits)! Mischa Auer lumbers along in his usual way, proving once again that he is the poor man's Boris Lugosi / Bela Karloff. While there are no true monsters in this movie, I still found it enjoyable enough for repeat viewings. Show it at your next horror ho-down...

Not As Bad As You Might Think.......2005-01-06

Not a horror picture, despite the title, but an Old-fashioned Dark House mystery where the murders are blamed on the late owner's ape (actually a chimp). The real murderer is Mischa Auer in an early role, far removed from the snobbish and refined characters he would later play. Rex Lease, a survivor of the silent era, is the nominal star (he would go on to appear in over 200 films, mostly westerns, and sometimes uncredited), along with Vera Reynolds, another silent film star who career ended shortly thereafter. The direction is static and the acting sometimes laughable, except for Willie Best, who plays the driver, Exodus. Best (here billed as Sleep `n' Eat, a name he frequently worked under in the early 30s) is again playing the cowardly stereotype, but his acting is heads and tails above the others, even Mischa Auer, who here appears as if he will never work again. A good example of early 30s low-budget film making and recommended for all film buffs.

Not really a monster movie, but tolerably good.......2003-01-23

The Earlton household is a rather strange one, particularly now that the head of the family has died suddenly. The Earltons have something that most families don't-a savage ape caged up in the basement (apparently, the late Mr. Earlton was some type of scientist). Yogi the ape detests Ruth Earlton for some unexplained reason, and he has a restless, sometimes rather raucous night once daughter Ruth returns to her old home for the reading of her father's will. Her uncle Robert, an invalid, welcomes her home alongside the family attorney and long-time servants Mrs. Krug and her son Hanss. Even though Ruth brings along her fiancé, she is in for a restless night, one punctuated by murder. When Ruth is first awakened during the night by a hairy arm coming from out of nowhere to try and strangle her, suspicion falls on the ape, but there seems to be no way the ape could have escaped his cage. Unsurprisingly, there are dark secrets in the house, ones which the audience has a good handle on from the start (which, unfortunately, takes away from some of the potential suspense). Nonetheless, there is one aspect of the full story that I did see coming.

Filmed in 1931, this movie does feature some comic relief in the form of Exodus (played by Willie Best, who is identified in the cast list by the name of "Sleep N' Eat"), a stereotypical black auto driver who conveys Ruth back to her family home. If you try to look past the racist element of the role, the character does provide some welcome humor in an otherwise bland, plodding film. In point of fact, Exodus is really the only character with enough sense to be afraid of whatever is going on in the weird house.

Basically, there is really nothing special about this early film to make it stand out, but it is a tolerably good mystery-horror story.

Monster of Comedy.......2001-09-08

In 1931, Universal Pictures released "Frankenstein", starring Boris Karloff. Instead of joining Paramount Pictures, and other studios on the brink of Depression Era receivership, Universal thrived! Americans flocked to see the Monster. Poverty Row studios tried to cash in with their own "Monster" flicks. Thus was born "The Monster Walks", released in 1932. The story involves people in an old dark house on a stormy night menaced by a killer ape(see short man in gorilla costume). If extremely poor filmaking intrigues you, pick up this lemon. Otherwise, save your dollar. The sets are so cheap they waver, and threaten to collapse at any time.One bright spot is the performance of Mischa Auer, a Russian actor emmigrant in a small part as Hanns. One year later, he'd shine working for Howard Hawks in the classic "Viva Villa". "The Monster Walks" plods forward at a pace a snail could challenge. In fact, the Monster doesnt't walk, it crawls.

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A woman and her boyfriend return to her ancestral home for the reading of her father's will. They arrive at the old mansion, during a storm, to be greeted by her strange uncle and a house full of suspicious characters. It appears that she will be the next victim of the killer and is to be murdered at the hands of a gorilla controlled by her devious uncle.

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Horror Movie Classics - 50 Movie Pack on 12 DVDs.......2007-05-01

All of these movie pack collections are pretty good for the price. However, this is not a new pack and the asking price is at least $10 higher than any of the other sets at their NEW price. Look further and this set could be purchased cheaper. The highest price on a new set is $20 and some are down to $10. The films are grainy and the sound isn't the best, but they are watchable and fun.

Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 11 (Lady Frankenstein / The Monster Walks / Monster from a Prehistoric Planet)

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Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 11 (Lady Frankenstein / The Monster Walks / Monster from a Prehistoric Planet)
Starring: Joseph Cotten , Rosalba Neri , Paul Muller , Paul Whiteman (II) , and Herbert Fux
Director: Aureliano Luppi , Mel Welles , and Frank R. Strayer
Manufacturer: Rph Productions
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Release Date: 2002-08-13

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The Monster Walks.......2002-08-07

I've been waiting for years for The Monster Walks to come out on DVD, and now it has arrived thanks to Reel Values and the folks at Navarre Home Video. The print is a bit grainy, but far better than the cheap VHS version I bought over 10 years ago. For under 10 bucks, plus 2 other cool films including: Lady Frankenstein it is quite a scary bargin!!!

Monster From A Prehistoric Planet.......2002-07-20

I purchased the Monster from a Prehistoric Planet because I saw the movie the other night on cable television. On cable it was a widescreen letterbox format, and the print was beautiful.
The presentation of this movie on this DVD is terrible. It is a pan and scan format, and the print that they copied it from is scratchy and very grainy.
My recomendation is to wait until someone else than Navarre Home Entertainment can produce a quality copy.
The movie itself is great example of some very bad Japanese Sci-Fi. The portrayal of the little Japanese boy in blackface will leave you laughing.

[10 Movie Pack] Temple of Hell / Cannibal Curse / Devil's Messenger / the Ghost Walks / Human Gorilla / the Mad Monster / Maniac / the Monster Walks / the Snow Creature / the Vampire Bat

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[11 Monster Flicks] White Zombie, Killer Shrews, Monster Walks, Creature from the Haunted Sea, Wasp Woman, Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Lady Frankenstein, Nightmare Castle, Invasion of the Bee Girls, House of 1000 Corpses

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The Monster Walks
Starring: Mischa Auer , Sidney Bracey , Rex Lease , Sheldon Lewis , and Vera Lewis
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